--CHOOSE YOUR CASE-- MINI-TOWER MID-TOWER FULL TOWER DESKTOP The Case is the box that holds all of your components that make up your computer, the bigger, the better.

--CHOOSE YOUR MOTHERBOARD-- FIC VA-503+ FIC PA-2013 The Motherboard is what everything else hooks in to.

--CHOOSE YOUR CPU-- CYRIX/IBM PR300 AMD K6-2 350mhz AMD K6-2 400mhz AMD K6-2 450mhz AMD K6-2 500mhz AMD K6-3 450mhz AMD ATHLON 500mhz AMD ATHLON 600mhz AMD ATHLON 700mhz The CPU is the brain of your computer, it runs all of the programs on your computer, the higher mhz the faster computer.

--CHOOSE YOUR FAN-- Heatsink & Fan Peltier heatsink & Fan The CPU fan is what cools the CPU, I only carry ball-bearing fans, they last alot longer than sleeve bearing fans.

--CHOOSE YOUR RAM-- 32 MEGS PC100 64 MEGS PC100 128 MEGS PC100 256 MEGS PC100 64 MEGS PC133 128 MEGS PC133 256 MEGS PC133 The RAM is how much memory can be taken from the Hard Drive to run programs at once, the more RAM, the faster the computer and more applications that can be run at a time.

-- CHOOSE YOUR HARD DRIVE-- 4.3 GIGABYTE IDE HARD DRIVE 6.4 GIGABYTE IDE HARD DRIVE 10 GIGABYTE IDE HARD DRIVE The Hard Drive is the amount of space you have to put your programs on.

--CHOOSE YOUR CD-ROM-- 24x IDE 32x IDE 40x IDE 44x IDE 48x IDE 50x IDE The CD-ROM drive is ofcourse what you use to run CD's, whether to play games, listen to music CD's, or various other programs. The higher x (speed), the faster the cd-rom reads the information from the CD.

--CHOOSE YOUR DISK DRIVE-- STANDARD 1.44 LS120 ZIP 100meg ZIP 250meg The Disk Drive is ofcourse what you use to read/write from the 1.44 floppy disks. But you can get better disk drives.

--CHOOSE YOUR VIDEO CARD-- 8 MEG ATI-RAGE AGP 8 MEG VOODOO 2 16 MEG RIVA TNT2 16 MEG VOODOO 3 The Video Card is what you use to view the pictures on your monitor, the more megabytes the better pictures and more pictures you can have on the screen at once, basically a higher quality video output, the bigger, the better for big 3d games.

--CHOOSE YOUR SOUND CARD-- 16-bit generic sound card 128-bit generic sound card 128-bit creative labs sound blaster 128-bit LIVE! sound blaster The Sound Card is obviously what is used to output sound through your speakers. The higher bit the better quality sound.

--CHOOSE YOUR SPEAKERS-- 120-watt speakers 360-watt speakers 500-watt subwolfer & speakers The speakers ofcourse play the sound from your sound card. Computer speakers are magnetically shielded to protect the monitor, so regular speakers cannot be used, unless you would like to repair/replace your monitor frequently.

--CHOOSE YOUR MODEM-- 56k v.90 internal generic 56k v.90 internal US Robotics 56k v.90 external US Robotics 56k v.everything external The modem is what is used to call up a remote location via a telephone line, for example, your internet access.

--CHOOSE YOUR NIC-- 10-mbit Generic 10-mbit Kingston 100-mbit Generic 100-mbit Kingston The Network Interface Card (NIC) is what is used to connect to other computers in a Local Area Network (LAN).

--CHOOSE YOUR MONITOR-- 14" SVGA Monitor 15" SVGA Monitor 17" SVGA Monitor 19" SVGA Monitor The monitor is the screen that you view everything on, the bigger the better I would say.

--CHOOSE YOUR PRINTER-- LEXMARK 1100 HP DESKJET 697C HP DESKJET 722C The Printer is obviously what is used to print stuff that you see on your monitor to paper.

--CHOOSE YOUR SCANNER-- The Scanner is the device used to capture an picture to a file on your computer.

--CHOOSE YOUR KEYBOARD-- STANDARD 104 KEY 108 KEY The keyboard is self explainatory, it puts the letters/numbers on the screen of a computer.

--CHOOSE YOUR MOUSE-- STANDARD 2-BUTTON STANDARD 3-BUTTON STARDARD SCROLL MOUSE MICROSOFT SCROLL MOUSE The mouse would be self-explainatory too, it moves around the cursor on the screen.

--CHOOSE YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM-- WINDOWS 95 WINDOWS 98 1ST EDITION WINDOWS 98 SECOND EDITION LINUX The Operating System is the program that runs everything on your computer, even the other programs.